Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand on my guard post
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply when I am reproved.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said,
“Record the vision
And inscribe it on tablets,
That the one who reads it may run.
3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply when I am reproved.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said,
“Record the vision
And inscribe it on tablets,
That the one who reads it may run.
3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
Psalms 139:1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You
1 Co 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Here are 3 triggers that prompt me to pray during my workday.
#1: My commute. For decades, Dave Hataj, Owner of Edgerton Gear in Wisconsin, has prayed the Lord’s Prayer on his drive to work, ending it like this: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done at Edgerton Gear as it is in heaven.” I love that and often pray “at Jordan Raynor & Company” as it is in heaven on the 30 second commute from my living room to my upstairs office.
#2: The sticky note on my refrigerator. This isn’t fancy. It just says PRAY. But now when I am waiting for coffee to warm up in the microwave, I am much less likely to aimlessly wander through my phone and much more likely to intentionally wander into God's presence through prayer.
#3: An empty Zoom room. I’m 2-5 minutes early to most Zoom meetings. I used to spend this time processing items in my CTS Inbox or (let’s be honest) checking my books’ bestseller rankings. But now—most of the time—I use those minutes to pray for the meeting that’s about to begin.
#1: My commute. For decades, Dave Hataj, Owner of Edgerton Gear in Wisconsin, has prayed the Lord’s Prayer on his drive to work, ending it like this: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done at Edgerton Gear as it is in heaven.” I love that and often pray “at Jordan Raynor & Company” as it is in heaven on the 30 second commute from my living room to my upstairs office.
#2: The sticky note on my refrigerator. This isn’t fancy. It just says PRAY. But now when I am waiting for coffee to warm up in the microwave, I am much less likely to aimlessly wander through my phone and much more likely to intentionally wander into God's presence through prayer.
#3: An empty Zoom room. I’m 2-5 minutes early to most Zoom meetings. I used to spend this time processing items in my CTS Inbox or (let’s be honest) checking my books’ bestseller rankings. But now—most of the time—I use those minutes to pray for the meeting that’s about to begin.
John 17:25 “O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.